"He was an in-patient at the hospital when I first met him, miserably ill and broken, a victim of poverty and undeserved misfortune.

5 Made in-patients .. .. ..

In the year ending Midsummer 1818, there were relieved 1167 in-patients and 2541 out-patients, including 766 for the cow-pock, who all of them did well.

The buildings, which have been progressively enlarged, and to which other establishments have been attached, contain 180 beds for the accommodation of in-patients, with apartments for the officers and attendants, and a surgery, library of medical books, committee-rooms, and other offices; also a complete set of baths for the use of the patients.

There is an infirmary also in the castle, of which the average annual number of in-patients is about thirty-fiveof out-patients above one thousand.

Dr Matthews Duncan in 1870 put the puerperal mortality at 1 in 100 for in-patients and 1 in 120 for patients in their own homesshocking figures for a physiological event!

"You have been going there for three weeks, and yet you don't know your way?" "I been a in-patient.